[Libguestfs] More notes on virt-v2v 1.27.27

[Shahar: Let's discuss virt-v2v & oVirt integration on the public mailing list from now on.] New in 1.27.27: * What we previously called `-o ovf' -- ie the ability to export just the OVF metadata -- has been implemented but in a slightly different way. You can now use: virt-v2v [...] -o rhev --no-copy -os remote:/esd ^^^^^^^^^ This means do the conversion and produce the metadata, but don't bother copying the disks. This flag is of course applicable to other output methods. * You can use the options --rhev-image-uuid, --rhev-vol-uuid and --rhev-vm-uuid to control the UUIDs used when exporting to oVirt. As previously discussed this lets the OVF produced by the --no-copy option be relatively stable. * There is now a fairly minimal test suite which is run on every release (`make check-release'). See `v2v/test-*.sh'. It tests that the virt-v2v command line flags all work, and that a handful of real guests don't break virt-v2v. However it does *not* test that conversion is successful or that the guest will boot on the target. That will be done by a more sophisticated test suite which I'm writing which unfortunately cannot be fully released in public because it contains proprietary guests eg Windows. * The `-o libvirt' target has now been implemented. * A lot of code clean ups, bug fixes etc. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html